The ‘Idea’ in the One-New-Idea Constraint
Special issue of Functions of Language 33:1/2 (2026)
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[Functions of Language, 33:1/2] Expected September 2026. ca. 125 pp.
Publishing status: In production
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Table of Contents
- How much is too much? The one-new-idea constraint and the information–intonation interfaceUta Reinöhl & Naomi Peck | pp. 1–9
- The ‘idea’ in the one-new-idea constraintUta Reinöhl & Naomi Peck | pp. 10–43
- Joint attention, interaction-management, and other factors: The one-new-idea tendency as an emergent phenomenonPavel Ozerov | pp. 44–80
- Verbalisation and the One-New-Idea ConstraintNaomi Peck | pp. 81–110
- The role of information packaging in shaping linguistic structureMarianne Mithun | pp. 111–132
- The one–new–idea constraint, functor–argument metaphors, and holistic speech processingUta Reinöhl & T. Mark Ellison | pp. 133–159
- A cross-linguistic computational study on one new idea per clauseGuido M. Linders & Stefan Schnell | pp. 160–192
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